The Authors of the OE
SuAnn M. Reddick is the historian for Chemawa Indian School in Salem and is currently researching the history of the school and its place in the Pacific Northwest. With Cary Collins, she has written several articles concerning Native American history. She lives in McMinnvillle.
Joseph Reihl, BS,MS,MAT, Instructor, Douglas High School, Winston, Oregon Social Studies Department, 35 year amateur historian, 2009 Oregon Indian Education Association Outstanding Indian Teacher of the Year 2009 Douglas High School Teacher of the Year, Member- Oregon Indian Coalition of Post Secondary Education, Member- Oregon Education Association, interest include Military history, Native American Culture & Histories.
Bob Reinhardt earned his Masters of Arts in history from the University of Oregon, with a thesis on the history of the communities of the North Santiam Canyon in the western Cascades. He has presented portions of that project at conferences throughout the Northwest. He was the 2007 recipient of the Center for Columbia River History's Castles Fellowship, for which he wrote a comparative history of community displacement in the face of federal dam construction in Detroit, Oregon, and Hover, Washington. Bob is a PhD candidate in history at the University of California, Davis.
Don Reynolds is emeritus professor of English at Southern Oregon University. He has lived in Ashland since 1967 and earned his Ph.D. from the University of Washington.
Phyllis Reynolds received her master's degree in English language and literature from the University of Michigan in 1964. She taught English at Pacific Lutheran University and was an English teacher and counselor in the Medford school district for twenty-eight years. She served on the board of the Oregon Council of Teachers of English for ten years and worked with the Oregon Writing Project. Her involvement in school improvement projects included helping to write and administer two consecutive grants under Oregon's original House Bill 2020 legislation. She has lived in Ashland since 1967.
Kent Richards is emeritus professor of history at Central Washington University. He has published on Indian-white relations and other topics of nineteenth-century Northwest history, including the only modern biography of Isaac Stevens.
Captain Thron Riggs went to sea on merchant ships after graduation from high school. He spent twenty-seven years on ships, the last seven as Master. He has been a Columbia River Bar Pilot since 1992.
Jay Rishel has taught English at Wilsonville High School since 2000 and currently serves on the board of the Oregon Council of Teachers of English. He lives with his wife and two daughters in Northeast Portland. He swears never to talk about Chuck Palahniuk again.
William G. Robbins is emeritus distinguished professor at Oregon State University, where he was professor of history from 1971 until 1999. He is the author and editor of books on Oregon and the Pacific Northwest, including Landscapes of Promise: The Oregon Story, 1800-1940 and Oregon, This Storied Land. Since immigrating to Oregon from the East Coast in 1963, Robbins has developed an abiding affection for the state. It has been one of his great joys to have taught Pacific Northwest and Western American history for more than 30 years.
Elaine Dahl Rohse, McMinnville, is a native Oregonian and graduate of the University of Oregon journalism school. She is a past president and life member of the Yamhill County Historical Society. Her book, Poverty Wasn't Painful, was published in 2007. For more than thirty years she has written a column, "Rohse Colored Glasses," for the McMinnville News-Register, and has sold hundreds of articles to newspapers and magazines. She is a former lobbyist for Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association and Oregon State Sheriff's Association, and was McMinnville's first woman council member.
